Shade-bracket holder.



PATENTED OUT. 18, 1904.

H. G. FILSONt SHADE BRAGKET HOLDER APPLICATION FILED OUT. 20, 1903.

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W I ATTORNEY-S I Patented October 18, 1904.

UNITED STATES. PATENT OFFICE.

HIRAM GRISWOLD FILSON, OF NEW CUMBERLAND, WEST VIRGINIA.

SHADE-BRACKET HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 772,561, dated October18, 1904.

Application filed October 20,1903.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HIRAM GRIswoLI) FILsoN,

a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New Cumberland, in thecounty of Hancock and State of West Virginia, have invent ed new anduseful Improvements in Shade- Bracket Holders, of which the following isa full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to a device adapted to be secured to awindow-frame and having means for attaching thereto the usual form ofbracket used to support a window-shade fixture.

dicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective View showing two devices embodying myinvention as in use supporting a shade. Fig. 2 is a perspective view ofthe device closed on a shade-bracket. Fig. 3 is a similar View with thedevice open, and Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4 1 of Fig. 2.

Referring now to the accompanying drawings, the invention comprises asupporting member or plate 6, having right-angle bends 7 8 at its ends,which bends have end portions 9 and 10, constituting flanges andextending in opposite directions. The flanges are provided withapertures to receive fasteningscrews 11 or similar means for securingthe device to the window-casing at any convenient place'adjacent to thewindow. I

The lower edge of the plate 6 has an extension 12, preferably integral,that is projected forward and then upward for ashort distance- A plate13 substantially U-shaped in transverse section is pivoted at its end 11 to the end of the plate 6 adjacent the bend 7. This movable plate 13is normally held with the 5 upper edge of the plate 6 lying in the topof Serial No. 177,740. (No model.) 7

its U-shaped bend 15, asindicated in Figs. 3

and 4,.and is retained in such position by an disposed at the probablelimits of location of the shade-bracket holder, as indicated in Fig. 1.The device is then opened by disengaging the spring-hooks 16 and 17 andthe plate 13 is swung upward. The bracket 20 has its web portion2linserted in one of the openings 19 in the 'plate 12, and when'themember 13 is swung to the closed position it will cause the 'web of theholder to be engaged by the upper plate at the opening 18 thereinopposite the opening in which it lies in the plate 12. Upon the hooks 16and 17 now engaging the bracket will be securely locked in the holder.It will be seen from Fig. 4, as well as the other views, that the flangeportion 22 of the bracket will be secured between the face of the plate6 and the opposite portions of the members 12 and 13. The series ofopenings in the plates 12 and 13 will provide for a considerable rangeof adjustment to accommodate different lengths of shade-rollers. When itis desired to remove the shade and bracket for any reason, by merelydisengaging the hook members 16 and 17 and swinging the movable member13 upward the bracket will be free-to be removed and may be againinserted or another one put in its place without in any wise marring theframe of the window, the bracketholder being permanently attached tosaid frame.

Having thus described my invention, I claim opposite the first engagingmember and movable relatively thereto.

2. The combination of a supporting-plate, provided with a serratedengaging member rigid therewith, a second engaging member pivoted to thesupporting-plate opposite the first engaging member and movablerelatively to the latter, means for locking the movable member, and ashade-bracket adapted to be held by said engaging member.

3. The combination of a supporting member, provided with a strip rigidtherewith and having an upwardly-projecting portion, a second stripmovably attached to the supporting member and having a portion normallydisposed opposite to and extending toward said upwardly-extended portionof the first-mentioned strip, each of said strips having serrations andopenings in its edge between the serrations, the second strip beingmovable toward and from the first-mentioned strip, and a hooked portionprojecting from each strip, said hooked portions being designed tointerlock, substantially as set forth.

4. In a shade-bracket holder, the combination of a stationary member, aserrated member pivoted to the stationary member, and elongatedserrations on both said members, of substantially the thickness of saidmembers projecting toward each other, said pivot acting to guide thepivoted member and bring each serration on the pivoted member intoposition directly opposite a serration on the stationary member.

5. In a shade-bracket holder the combination of a stationary member, aserrated pivoted member movable relatively to the stationary member, andhaving a hooked extended portion and a locking-hook carried by thepivoted member and designed to engage with the hooked extended portionof the stationary member.

6. The combination of a supporting-plate, a shade-bracket, and means forholding the shade-bracket to the sup 'iorting-plate, comprising a memberon said supporting-plate having teeth or serrations, and a second memberarranged opposite the first member, said second member also having teethor serrations, the serrations of said second member extending toward theserrations of the first member, said shade-bracket being adapted tobeheld between any two serrations on the two members.

7 A device of the character described, comprisinga plate having anoffset flange portion at each end, the plate having a portion projectingforwardly and then upwardly from one edge, and having serrations in theedge of said portion, a strip substantially U-shaped in transversesection, pivoted at one end to an end portion of the first-named plateand having an inverted-Usliaped portion normally engaging the upper edgeof said first-named plate, a hooked extension on the free end of thepivoted plate, and a hooked extension on the upwardly-extending portionof said firstmentioned plate, said hooked extensions being adapted toengage one with the other, and said movable member having serrations inone longitudinal edge, opposite the serrations in the fixed member.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence oi two subscribing witnesses.

HIRAM GRISVVOLD FILSON.

Witnesses:

J. A. MCKENZIE, RoB'r. M. BROWN.

